The media’s failure to cover Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s ongoing conflicts of interest as he gets billions from the Middle East while being Trump’s negotiator is insane.
(Especially after what they did with Hunter Biden)
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In a normal world, blather from Washington and Tehran would be seen as just pre-negotiation gamesmanship and posturing, but there's nothing normal about the players involved in this debacle.
We don't know what will happen until it happens -- or until an anomaly appears in the prediction markets.
This is the language of a failing dictator. Declare victory before the outcome exists, accuse critics of treason, attack the press, and insist that only he can be trusted to finish the job.
"It has become a kitchen table issue, and it has become a very relevant political issue," Christabel Randolph, associate director of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, tells NPR.
"Tech companies coming to build in their backyard is going to increase their bills."
#AI
#DataCenters
#VotersGetIt
Wonder what the president will make worse today.
The average price of a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline in the United States remains slightly above $4 a gallon this morning because of the war Trump and Netanyahu launched.
Get angry about it and take action.
#Organize
Wow:
More Corruption from the felon.
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@wsj.com #Florida
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KERNEN: You're saying you need at least the prospect for a signed deal today or tomorrow or else you would resume bombing Iran?
TRUMP: Well, I expect to be bombing. The military is raring to go.
“We didn’t start this fight, but I’m saying to Virginia, we need to finish it,” Delores McQuinn, a Democratic member of the House of Delegates, told CNN at a rally in the final days of the redistricting campaign. “We can help level the playing field.”
#Vote
Tucker Carlson: “I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I’m sorry for misleading people.”
The BBC "found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public," and "some analysts say it bears the hallmarks of illegal insider trading."
#Grift
EU foreign ministers are meeting in Luxembourg today.
But this time, without obstructionist Hungary.
Will the meeting finally deliver movement on several key issues?
🎙️ Ian Wishart and @swheatonjourno.bsky.social discuss on today’s #BrusselsPlaybookPod 👇
Kevin Warsh wants to lead America’s central bank.
Why does he have more than $100 million in undisclosed assets?
Democrats should make the confirmation hearing on the nominee to be U.S. Attorney General all about the Epstein files.
If you won’t commit to release the files without redactions and prosecute the Epstein class, then you’re obstructing justice, not enforcing it.
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
(Published 2021)
Layoffs across trucking and warehousing are now topping 800+, as contracts unwind and operations shift.
This isn’t about one company — it’s happening across the industry, FreightWaves reports.
#Layoffs
#DeiselPrices
As the weekend approached, the US and Iran appeared to be closing in on a deal to end the seven-week war.
Then President Donald Trump did exactly what his staffers have repeatedly said they wouldn’t do.
JUST IN:
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who was under internal investigation, is leaving her position. She becomes the third cabinet departure of President Trump's second term.
The Last Week Tonight host dug into the rapidly expanding, poorly regulated free-for-all of ‘prediction markets’ like Kalshi and Polymarket
Supreme Court ruled Trump tariffs were unlawful and struck them down, but not before the Trump tariffs triggered a new round of inflation.
Unfortunately, neither the court nor Trump created a mechanism to refund consumers who got screwed by Trump tariffs.
It's our money.
#InflationNation
Lawsuits are the best shot consumers have to get refunds from Trump's unlawful tariffs -- and they are coming, promises trade site Supermarket News.
“In the coming weeks, these [consumer class-action] cases are likely to proliferate,” global law firm Reed Smith, posted online.
#UnlawfulTariffs
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
SCOOP with Elizabeth Williamson: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal.
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